1. A game apparatus comprising a cabinet defining a playing area, means for receiving and accepting or rejecting a playing piece such as a coin or token, means for projecting an accepted playing piece within the playing area, and at least one shelf disposed in a lower portion of the playing area and onto which projected playing pieces may fall after projection, with said playing area containing one or more holes placed in liner path from front edge to the back of the playfield, bisecting the playfield, that allows playing pieces to fall through and activate a prize dispensing apparatus with one or more drawers that remained locked, by a spring held metal rod from a solenoid fitted into a hole in the bottom of each drawer, until the prize is won and the solenoid is activated and the rod is pulled out of the hole unlocking the drawer allowing the drawer to open and the prize be removed, rewarding the player a prize when the desired number of fallen playing pieces have been registered, and said shelf being traversed by pusher means which push playing pieces collected thereon towards an edge of the shelf.
2. A game apparatus comprising a cabinet defining a playing area, means for receiving and accepting or rejecting a playing piece such as a coin or token, means for projecting an accepted playing piece within the playing area, and at least one shelf disposed in a lower portion of the playing area and onto which projected playing pieces may fall after projection, with said playing area containing one or more holes placed in liner path from front edge to the back of the playfield, bisecting the playfield, that allows playing pieces to fall through, and activate a playing piece dispensing apparatus comprising of an rectangular box having two flat inserts that direct game pieces down toward an angular coin slide at the middle base of said box that dispenses game pieces onto the play field, a ridged bar connects said box to the coin chute allowing the player to direct the placement of awarded game pieces when the desired number of fallen playing pieces have been registered, and said shelf being traversed by pusher means which push playing pieces collected thereon towards an edge of the shelf.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A direct electrical heating flow system comprising:
at least one flow pipe; and
at least one cable disposed along said at least one flow pipe for heating andor monitoring said at least one flow pipe, wherein the cable includes an inner conductive region surrounded by an annular insulating region and peripheral thereto an outer annular conductive region; and
said inner conductive region encloses an optical fibre waveguide region surrounded by a soft bedding and including at least one optical fibre waveguide for conveying at least one information-bearing signal.
2. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the soft bedding is a polymer or a rubber sheath.
3. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical fibre waveguide region is centrally disposed within said inner conductive region.
4. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said outer annular conductive region is implemented, at least in part, using electrically-conductive flexible polymer material.
5. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said electrically-conductive flexible polymer material includes an electrically-conducting rubber material.
6. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said inner conductive region further comprises at least one metallic conductor whose laying angle is in a range of 17\xb0 to 20\xb0.
7. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the annular insulating region is implemented by a semiconductive sheath surrounding the inner conductive region, and a polymer material insulating sheath surrounding the semiconductive sheath.
8. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the thickness of the semiconductive sheath is at least 10% of the thickness of the polymer material insulating sheath.
9. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said optical fibre waveguide region is protected within a metallic tube.
10. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cable is attached via a conduit to the at least one flow pipe.
11. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the conduit is strapped at periodic spatial intervals to the at least one flow pipe.
12. A direct electrical heating flow system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said inner conductive region is adapted to convey current for heating at least a portion of said at least one flow pipe, and said optical fibre waveguide region is operable to convey signals corresponding to one or more physical measurements performed upon said at least one flow pipe.